Recording News

Jazz/Folk Chanteuse Lissy Walker to Release Debut CD, "Life is Sweet," on Feb. 9

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 27, 2010

After an acting and singing career that took her from Berkeley High to New York's Public Theater to San Francisco's ACT, Lissy Walker has returned to her hometown and to her musical roots. On Wednesday, March 10, she will celebrate the release of her sublime debut album Life Is Sweet with a performance at the new Freight & Salvage on Addison Street in the heart of Berkeley's downtown Arts and Cultural District. The show will be a true homecoming for ...

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Solitaire's New Record "Born to be Blue" Will Be Released This Spring

Source: Michael Ricci
January 26, 2010

Solitaire Miles and Willie Pickens are releasing a new album “Born to Be Blue" this Spring in Chicago. “For Born To Be Blue, Solitaire utilized some of Chicago's top musicians, all of whom have the flexibility to sound at home in a swing combo. One particular joy of this CD is hearing a lot of fresh material, vintage songs that deserve to be revived. “Born To Be Blue" is one of Mel Torme's best originals while “You've Got to Crawl ...

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Legendary and Trendsetting Bassist Anthony Jackson to Release His First-Ever Solo Record on Abstract Logix Music

Source: Abstract Logix
January 26, 2010

From his cornerstone role on seminal pop, fusion and jazz recordings with everyone from Chaka Khan and Steely Dan to Chick Corea and Quincy Jones, to his invention of the 6-string contrabass guitar and revolutionary use of a flanger pedal on the O'Jays' smash, “For the Love of Money," Anthony Jackson has long been the bassist's bassist. About the only milestone missing from Jackson's remarkable career is a solo album. Until now. Via the proposal and pen of his good ...

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Martin Sexton to Release "Sugarcoating" Album April 6

Source: conqueroo
January 26, 2010

Sexton ranges American landscape searching for the truth

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Sugarcoating, Martin Sexton's new album due out April 6, 2010, finds the one-of-a-kind artist doing what he does best: locating larger truths within specific details of the life he's living. “I write from personal experience -- my own hang- ups and quirks, good times and bad times. That keeps it real."

The Syracuse-born artist tracked Sugarcoating live off the floor in seven days with a remarkably cohesive studio ...

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John Butler Trio: April Uprising out 4/6

Source: JamBase
January 26, 2010

JOHN BUTLER TRIO TO RELEASE APRIL UPRISING APRIL 6

John Butler Trio John Butler returns with his first album in three years, April Uprising, to be released April 6. The album finds the multi-platinum Australian artist with a new line up and a new label in the States, ATO Records.

Recorded in Melbourne, Australia at Sing Sing Studios, April Uprising is the follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed and globally successful release, Grand National, which yielded a No. 1 U.S. Triple ...

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Rounder to Release 40th Ann. Concert Album

Source: JamBase
January 26, 2010

ROUNDER TO RELEASE ROUNDER RECORDS' 40th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT ALBUM MARCH 2

Alison Krauss & Union Station On March 2, Rounder will release Rounder Records' 40th Anniversary Concert, an album of the concert that celebrated the label's 40 years in the music industry. Recorded in October 2009 at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, the concert will also be presented as a PBS television special that will begin airing on the network in March, 2010 and released on DVD in May.

The event ...

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CD Reviews: Pat Metheny, Mose Allison, and More

Source: Pop Dose
January 26, 2010

The press kit for Pat Methenys Orchestrion promises that the album redefines solo performance, and for once, that isnt just gently perfumed publicist smoke being blown up your ass its the Gods honest truth. Entranced by the orchestrion, a mechanical instrument array that surfaced in the late 19th century, Metheny enlisted a small army of inventors to help him bring the concept into the modern era. The result is this five-track, 52-minute collection, which finds Metheny quite literally running the ...

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Gil Melle: Blue Note and Prestige

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 26, 2010

In the 1950s, there were jazz musicians who lived so far into the future intellectually that other musicians from the period called them “far out." Gil Melle was one of those “out of sight" artists. But to merely refer to Melle (pronounced Mell-AY) as a jazz baritone saxophonist doesn't fully explain this creative dynamo who today is largely forgotten. In addition to recording fascinating albums of atonal and linear jazz for Blue Note and Prestige between 1952 and 1957, Melle ...

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